Nancy Emily DARBY

1891 - 1981  (89 years)

• Name	Nancy Emily DARBY
  Birth	10 Dec 1891	Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri
  Gender	Female
  Oregon Death Certificate	81-20789
  Death	2 Dec 1981	Salem, Marion County, Oregon
  Burial	Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem, Marion County, Oregon
  Notes	Or Emmaline. She is shown in the 1930 census as having been 24 years old when she was first married. As Nancy Emily Lant, b. 10 Dec 1891, d. 2 Dec 1981, in Marion County, Oregon, she was the spouse of Lester. Her SS# was issued in North Dakota before 1951. According to one of her granddaughters: “Her parents were Moses Darby and Mary Bell Clayburn, born in Missouri and had 3 brothers and a sister. She married William Gustaf Anderson who was a widower with 5 living children. She had one son of her own from a previous relationship. Together they had 8 more children, my mother being one of them. After Grandpa died, Grandma Nancy married Lester Lant. She outlived Lester and remained a widow until she died in 1981, lacking 8 days of being 90 years old.” According to another granddaughter: “Nancy Emmaline Darby Anderson Lant was never married before marrying William Gustav Anderson. She had a baby boy fathered by Andrew Lee in 1917, but Andrew had a wife and family and left her immediately to go back to his family. Nancy was devastated, but loved her baby and raised him by herself until she married Bill who treated him as his own.” An obit: Nancy Emily Lant, 89, of 672 Hawthorne NE, died Wednesday in St. Timothy Nursing Home. She was born in Osceola, Mo. and moved to Salem in 1946. She was a member of the First Christian Church. Survivors include her sons, Vern and Don Anderson, both of Salem, Virgil Anderson, Bellflower, Calif. and Gordon Lee, Waterville, Minn., daughters, Louise Johnson, New Richland, Minn., Betty Swenson and Esther Pagel, both of Albert Lea, Minn., and Joyce Nelson, Salem, sister, Martha Rugg, Minneapolis, 51 grandchildren, 52 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. Graveside services will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Lee Mission Cemetery.
  Person ID	I7765	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2014

  
  

  Father	Moses DARBY
  Mother	Mary Bell CLAYBURN,   b. Sep 1860, Missouri
  Family ID	F13595	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Andrew LEE,   b. Norway d. Unknown
  Children	1. Gordon Alden LEE,   b. 18 Sep 1917, Minnesota d. 16 Jan 2009, Waterville, Le Sueur County, Minnesota (Age 91 years)
  Family ID	F8582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Feb 2010

  
  

  Family 2	William Gustav ANDERSON,   b. 14 Aug 1887, Troy, Rensselaer County, New York d. 2 Apr 1952, Salem, Marion County, Oregon (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	20 Oct 1919	Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota
  Children	1. G.W. ANDERSON   2. Joyce Lorrane ANDERSON,   b. 1 Jun 1921, Grant County, North Dakota d. 13 Nov 2013, Morton County, North Dakota (Age 92 years)   3. G.F. ANDERSON   4. Esther Avis ANDERSON,   b. 25 Sep 1924, North Dakota d. 2 Sep 2021, Minnesota (Age 96 years)   5. Donald L ANDERSON,   b. 6 Jul 1926, North Dakota d. 10 Sep 2014, Oregon (Age 88 years)   6. L.C. ANDERSON   7. Vernon I ANDERSON,   b. 17 Apr 1930, Grant County, North Dakota d. 18 Jan 2013, Marion County, Oregon (Age 82 years)   8. Unknown ANDERSON
  Family ID	F5900	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2011

  
  

  Family 3	Lester Wilbur LANT,   b. 15 Oct 1892, Kansas d. 5 Sep 1961, Marion County, Oregon (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F8588	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart